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It was another uroboru buffet. The uroboru is a mythical critter, shaped like a dragon, that ate it’s tail. As the tail got bigger, the uroboru got bigger. What outside matter contributes to this growth? What happens to waste matter? How do you find pants that fit? There are questions, and hypothesis, and debates that lead to name calling and finger pointing. The mainstream media/internet is like that.
It started today at Andrew Sullivan’s facility. The first time PG heard the word blog, the writer was talking about Andrew Sullivan. At the time, a blog was considered a “vanity website”. Sullivan does have a fertile site, and you will be exposed to things if you go there on a regular basis.
Mr. Sullivan has something called the “Malkin Award”, named for an personality of ill repute. Today’s expression is about  Charles Krauthammer . Mr. Krauthammer wrote a piece denouncing President BHO. To his credit,he used a rather clever phrase: “Many of those who wanted to see Castle nominated in Delaware have from the beginning defended the Tea Party movement from the mainstream media’s scurrilous portrayal of it as a racist rabble of resentful lumpenproletarians.”
Mr. Krauthammer… known as a shameless cheerleader for Israel… manages to trip over his own rhetoric in this piece. It starts in paragraph one, where he says that Christine O’Donnell cannot be elected in November. ( It is important for the Repubs to win this Senate seat, to stall the liberal yukkiness of BHO). And, now this might not happen in Delaware, because COD (which means your credit is no good, a familiar concept to the Miss O’Donnell) beat veteran career politician Mike Castle.
Here is where Mr. Krauthammer gets goofy, In paragraph one he says that Mike Castle was defeated by COD. In paragraph five, he says “Castle wasn’t only electable. He was unbeatable.” Maybe he was unbeatable in November, but he got blasted in the primary by Miss O’Donnell.
Getting back to the Sullivan commentary . He printed a quote from a letter, which said that “What’s Malkin-ish about Krauthammer’s statement? I’m a Dem, strong supporter of the president, and I can’t disagree with what Krauthammer is saying. I believe, and have always believed, that Obama wants to shift the country back to the left in the same way that Reagan shifted it right.” Actually, that is more or less what is happening.
BHO has doubled the number of troops in Afghanistan. BHO says the government has the right to kill American citizens if they are labelled as terrorists. The only tax hikes he wants are the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts. BHO came to the rescue of the Auto industry. The health care reform is watered down, and looking to be  profitable to the health care industry. Yea, that is taking America to the left, like Reagan took America to the right.
There is a fun little commentary about Reagan’s leadership, written by Christopher Buckley. Before we get into this, we might note that the Krauthammer column was titled “The Buckley Rule”.The Buckley referred to is William F., the polysyllabic pundit, and father of Christopher. (The son is more fun to read.) The Buckley rule says that you should choose the candidate who is most likely to win the general election. This is supposed to mean the “unbeatable” politician, who got whipped by COD.
Ok, so how did Ronald Reagan lead the country to the right, which is the same way BHO is leading it to the left? As Christopher Buckley recalls ” I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration, at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off. The problem was that Reagan had promised to a) cut taxes and b) increase defense spending. You remember: supply side? Candidate George H.W. Bush called it “voodoo economics,” his argument being that you couldn’t cut the deficit without cutting non-defense spending. Mr. Bush stopped calling it that round about January 20, 1981. Reagan then cut taxes, increased defense spending, and didn’t cut entitlement spending.
As the deficits began mount–though they were mere trifles, pittances compared with the Mt. Everest variety with us today–I meekly raised my little voice and said, “But I thought we Republicans were supposed to be the ‘Daddy Party’–the responsible ones. The designated driver-party.”
The answer, rendered most succinctly, 20 years later by Vice President Dick Cheney, himself part of a Republican administration that managed to double the national debt in eight years, was: “Deficits don’t matter.” P.S. Go f— yourself.”
Nancy’s husband not only led America to huge budget deficits. He sold guns to Iran, and invested the profits in Central America. Planes from America went to Nicaragua loaded with guns, and were not empty when they returned home. Meanwhile, the war on drugs was expanding the powers of government, while reducing the rights of citizens. Yea, he took America to the right, the same way BHO is taking America to the left.
Pictures for tonight’s entertainment are from The Library of Congress.